"Ndonga" redirects here. For other uses, see Ndonga (disambiguation).
Ndonga
ndonga
Native to
Namibia and southern Angola
Region
Ovamboland
Native speakers
810,000 (2006)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
Kavango–Southwest
Southwest Bantu
Ovambo
Ndonga
Language codes
ISO 639-1
ng
ISO 639-2
ndo
ISO 639-3
ndo
Glottolog
ndon1254
Guthrie code
R.22[2]
Linguasphere
99-AUR-lc
Ndonga, also called Oshindonga, is a Bantu dialect spoken in Namibia and parts of Angola. It is a standardized dialect of the Ovambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Kwanyama, the other Ovambo dialect with a standard written form. With 810,000 speakers, the language has the largest number of speakers in Namibia.
Martti Rautanen translated the Bible into the Ndonga dialect. Beginning his work in 1885, he published the New Testament in 1903, but it took until 1920 to finish the Old Testament. His Bible translation became the basis of a standardized form of Ndonga.[3]
^Ndonga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
^"Namiweb.com". Namibweb.com. Archived from the original on 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2013-03-16.
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